LONDON: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan today denied that her country was building a nuclear bomb and said she would like to work for nuclear nonproliferation with India.
Interviewed on British television, Ms. Bhutto said, “We would like to make our region free from the threat of nuclear proliferation and that is why we would like to work with India as our neighbor to prevent any pressures in the future.”
She added, “Pakistan has not nor do we have any intention of putting together or making a bomb, or taking it to the point where you can put it together.
Ms. Bhutto who is on a weeklong official visit to Britain told Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
over lunch Saturday that Pakistan’s nuclear technology program ‘was not weapons oriented, a Pakistani spokesman said.
A report last May by United States researchers concluded that India and Pakistan had made advances in nuclear arms. It said India was poised to test a hydrogen bomb and Pakistan was developing an atomic bomb for use with F16 aircraft.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 14, 1989
